KAAC × NY Kimchi
Hanbeon Deo (한번 더) presents unique perspectives around the notion of “one more time” by artists from the Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC), curated by Aaron Chung.
Each work in this exhibition asks what it means to remember and to repeat. History, place, and process are reimagined. Moments are infused with nostalgia that looks forward.
At Golden HOF & NY Kimchi, where classic Korean meets modern American, these works come together to express the richness and breadth of the lived Korean American experience while honoring a shared heritage.
Here’s to more. Always. Again. 짠!
FEATURED ARTISTS
Aaron Chung
Coleen Baik
Dan-Ah Kim
David Kim
Eunsoo Jeong
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
➀ DAN-AH KIM
Dan-ah Kim is an artist and designer, born in Seoul and now living in Brooklyn, New York. She works as a graphic designer for film & television, and as an illustrator and author of picture books. Her fine art is mostly mixed media; including gouache, acrylic, pencil, cut paper, thread, and pressed flowers. She has done artist residencies at Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain, and NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Her work is often rooted in storytelling, exploring the interior lives of women and the balance between vulnerability and strength.
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Mixed media
(gouache, cut paper, pressed flowers)22” x 30”
2024 -
Mixed media
(gouache, pencil, cut paper, thread, pressed flowers)22” x 30”
2024
➁ DAVE YOUNG KIM
Dave Young Kim 김재권 was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College, where he worked closely with renowned painter Hung Liu. His work engages with the intangible quality of home and explores themes of nostalgia, war, conflict, and displacement. By interpolating cultural motifs into personal and larger histories of struggle, Kim explores the unifying search for belonging across disparate conditions. He is a recipient of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Award and grants from the Abbey Art Foundation, California Arts Council and the City of Oakland. His work has been exhibited at the Pacific Asia Museum, Asian Art Museum, Reese Bullen Gallery, Stuurt Haaga Gallery, Walter Maciel Gallery, Vessel Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, SFAC Main Gallery, Kang Collection, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2020, he co-founded the Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC), a group of artists building community around work rooted in the Korean American experience.
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Latex and acrylic paint on wood panel
20 x 30”
2025The concept of harmony and balance is deeply embedded in Korean culture, exemplified by obangsaek, a traditional color scheme consisting of white, black, green/blue, red, and yellow. These colors appear in various aspects of daily life, from traditional music and clothing to food and architecture. Rooted in philosophy, each color is associated with elements of the universe, cardinal directions, and carries symbolic meanings. In Korean cuisine, balancing these five colors is believed to enhance well-being by aligning the body with natural energy. White symbolizes purity and lung health, black represents wisdom and kidney function, green/blue signifies youth and liver strength, red embodies fire and heart health, and yellow denotes earth and digestion. Historically, these colors have also held cultural and spiritual significance, influencing practices like food preparation and protective rituals.
➂ JEFFREY YOO WARREN
Jeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean diasporic artist educator, woodworker, illustrator, community scientist and researcher in Providence, RI, whose work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. He has spent years creating collaborative community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. Jeff is an educator with Movement Education Outdoors, the School for Poetic Computation, and AS220, and part of the New Old art collective with Aisha Jandosova, hosting art-making and storytelling events with older adults; he was also the 2023-4 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress.
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Hemlock, canvas, paracord, cotton straps
3’ 7” diameter X 1” deep
2025As I've been building more reproductions of different woodworks from traditional Korean lives, I've been trying to find ways that they can live in action and be a part of people's everyday lives, or even just be more participatory. I really want to share the experience not only of using these objects, whether they're tables or jigaes, but also of crafting them, and the feeling of touching wood and smelling it.
I also have wanted to make jigaes which are easier to ship, and so I made one recently that broke down to fit in a tube. I love the idea that people will assemble their own jigae and have the experience of putting it together. And so building on that I wanted to make a work which represented that process of putting it together, and I imagined it as a kind of exploded diagram of a jigae, woven together with a red ribbon or cord. The cord represents not only the way that it all fits together, but the act and the experience of assembling it. And the knowledge of how to do it.
I've been thinking a lot about how Korean diasporic artists rely on one another for complementary skills, materials and knowledges. And how we're all connected through this web of mutual support. So I think this ribbon also represents that web.